Over the last couple if years I have saved hundreds of articles I thought were worthy of comment on my blog. But it is literally impossible for one person to keep up with the endless flow of stupidity and hypocrisy coming from the Left. I have just discovered an Epoch Times piece of Feb. 7, 2021, concerning one published 3 days earlier in Time Magazine. Written by Molly Ball, the Time article was entitled “The Secret of the Shadow Campaign that Saved the 2020 Election.” Were our mainstream culture not so utterly poisoned by Leftist Ideology, it would have exploded with rightful indignation in response to this article. But alas, it did not.
Ball boasts that the outcome of the 2020 election was determined by the efforts of “a well-funded cabal of powerful people, ranging across industries and ideologies, working together behind the scenes to influence perceptions, change rules and laws, steer media coverage and control the flow of information.” While to any sane human being this “conspiracy” [her word not mine] would seem worthy of outright condemnation, Ball insists the conspirators were intent not on “rigging the election,” but on “fortifying it.” Indeed she celebrates the various media giants, tech companies and corporate CEOs involved, for having saved America’s Democracy!
So consumed is Ball by the righteousness of her cause that she openly admits the shadow campaign conspired to change “voting systems and laws” to the benefit of Democrats while shrewdly denouncing all Republican efforts to stop them as “voter suppression.” Her article, published in a magazine I used to revere, literally celebrates the perversion of Democracy as the salvation of Democracy! Those who might have been tempted to vote for Trump, the assumption would appear to have been, were simply too stupid to be entrusted with the truth. Hence the shadow campaign’s noble perversion of the truth. Hence the conviction of most “conservatives” that “progressives” who pretend to be the champions of the “common man,” actually loathe the common man.
As I have stated repeatedly, Trump is hardly my ideal politician. Paradoxically, the fact that he is not really a politician may be his greatest asset. But the Time Magazine article cited above is a perfect example of the disdain for Democracy that pervades the elitist Left which ludicrously sees the imposition of its agenda, however dishonestly achieved, as the only electoral outcome worthy of acceptance. For Molly Ball, the author of a book on Nancy Pelosi, it’s her way or the highway! Indeed it is perfectly reasonable to take from her article that Trump’s claim that the 2020 election was stolen from him has some merit and that the “insurrectionists” of Jan. 6 were not threats to America’s Democracy but rather its defenders.